Earlier this week I visited Hampton Park Primary to launch the Carpet Court Storybook Challenge at their school. I spoke to students in Years 3 and 4. They were a great bunch of kids with LOTS of fantastic questions. A photographer from the local paper was there. The result: this little article in Berwick News…
For more info about the Carpet Court Storybook Challenge, check out their FaceBook page.
Two bits of exciting Gamers news to report.
Gamers’ Challenge has joined Gamers’ Quest on the reading list for the Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge. Both books are listed for two age groups — Years 5 & 6 and Years 7 & 8. I’m rather pleased about this. 
Later this year, Ford Street Publishing will be releasing a new anthology — Trust Me Too. Amongst the 50+ stories and illustrations from Aussie contributors is a new Gamers story, “Gamers’ Inferno”. Set in the same world as the books, this story introduces a new game environment and a whole new set of characters, including Raph, the orphan boy from the slums, being pursued by the Militia because of his strange hallucinations; the mysterious Dama Sebastiana Annunciata, hidden from the Militia in the bowels of the city and protected by a secret sisterhood; the slightly unstable Oracle; and the triumvirate lords of the Inquisition — Lord Dante, Lord Brimstone and Lord Blaze.
